120 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL Parthenia. The dastardly crime is revealed to Philenia's father, Arsinous, by a page who escaped the fray. Arsadachus is guilty of further outrages and treasons ; but Arsinous finds it difficult to bring him to book, although the emperor begins to suspect his son. When, however, he intrigues with Diana, daughter of Argias, one of the emperor's dukes, and it comes out that he has secretly married her, the monaich is furious. He has Argias torn to pieces by wild horses, and, in another episode copied from the Arcadia, lays siege to the castle where Diana takes refuge. And now the lawlessness of the young prince breaks all bounds. He dethrones his father, and proceeds to torture him. Rumours of his misdeeds have reached the princess Margarita. She sends him a magic potion, which if Arsadachus is true to her will increase his affection, if disloyal, will drive him mad. He goes mad with a vengeance. Raging and storming, he dashes out the brains of his infant son, and wades in carnage, last of all running Margarita through the body as a sacrifice to his lost Diana. In bare outline, the story sounds cruder than it actually is ; it is a long way inferior to the Arcadia, but of all Elizabethan efforts in the same style it certainly comes closest to Sidney. Lodge, who had turned Roman Catholic, took up the study of medicine in middle age, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Physic at Avignon, practising in England chiefly in the families of his own religion. He wrote A Treatise of the Plague (1603); but his chief literary labours in his later years were devoted to translating the works of Josephus and of Seneca the philosopher. Other Anthony Munday, the most industrious of Elizabethan transla- mphmsts tors, wrote one euphuistic novel of his own, Zelauto, the Fountaine ~T T* i of Fame : Erected in an Or char de of Amorous Aduentures : Contain- day. Ud- r _ .. _. . „ , ,. oancke mS a Delicate Disputation^ gallantly discoursed betweene two noble Warner Gentlemen of Italy e : Given for a friendly entertainment to Euphues, at his late arrival into England (1580). Into the same category fall Brian Melbancke's Philotimus: the Warre betwixt Nature and Fortune (1583), and William Warner's Pan his Syrinx, or Pipe, Compact of seven Reedes (1584). This last is a framework story comprising the following tales: "Arbaces," "Thetis," "Belopares," "Pheone," "Deipyrus," "Aphrodite," "Opheltes," with a return to " Arbaces," pars calami primi.